Your parents have given you a new car on your 20th birthday for which they paid about $24,000. Assume this is also the price you would get if you decided to sell the car a month after getting it. The monthly costs of driving the car are $100 for oil changes and $200 for gas. If you decide to keep the car, what are the total economic costs of the car to you this month

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Answer:

$24,300

Explanation:

The total economic cost is the cost of doing something or buying an item along with the opportunity cost of doing something else.

Total cost= Monetary cost + Opportunity cost

Opportunity cost is defined as the forgone alternative when an individual performs an action.

In this scenario the monetary cost of the car is the maintenance of gasoline and oil. That is 200+ 100= $300

The opportunity cost is the amount the car would have been sold for, which is the forgone alternative. That is $24,000

Therefore

Total cost= 300+ 24,000

Total cost= $24,300